§ Actiontec M1000 DSL modem security
I used to use an Actiontec GT701 DSL modem. Since my entire livelihood depends on my internet access, I got a little nervous when some odd things started happening. As it happened, a friend was having trials with the phone company getting her DSL to work, and was advised to try the Actiontec M1000. Still no go, so I tested her modem here and it worked nicely. (That was all the phone company's fault, and after getting escalated a few times, I believe they were a bit embarrassed.) So I looked around and found a slightly used M1000 (with wireless) for about $30! (I don't want the wireless - I use Airport. Being an Apple product, it's actually comprehensible to mere mortals like myself.) But after a few days, weird things started happening with the M1000...
§ Software that leaves a mess
The other day, my WinXP machine kept bringing up the "let's clean up your hard drive" wizard, which I kept closing. I finally realized that Explorer claimed that I had 0 bytes available on my system drive! "Impossible," I thought, "what's wrong now?! A virus?" Not quite...
§ Validating email addresses (it's impossible) (Rant Alert!)
Search google for "validate email address" and you'll get about 303,000 results. I bet all of them are wrong...
Short version:
Why bother? I'm probably going to enter "example@example.com" anyway.
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